Crazy Stupid Love
Directed by: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Written by: Dan Fogelman
Staring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling & Julianne Moore
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cerificatiion: 12A
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In the opening sequence of crazy stupid love there is music playing over the tops of clips of a couples feet touching under tables. We presume its a meal table and then it revels that there is a man and a woman a meal table. They seem like they are deciding what they want to order for dinner, and the man thinks this too, but in the end the lady says she wants a divorce. It comes as a shock to the guy. It then goes into a scene where the couples child is at home enjoying her time with the babysitter before its time for bed and the child accidentally knocks over a picture frame with a picture of her parents. The picture frame is broken and has a smash in the glass and the babysitter picks it up.
The genre conventions that this film has stuck with is the use of the guy and girl relationship, this connotes the genre of film as most romance films are between a guy and a girl starting a friendship or in a relationship.
Another genre convention that is used in this film is the montage effect at the beginning showing the different feet under the table whilst there was music playing over the top, leading up to the main characters.
The use of the twist in the story, where the lady didn't choose what she wanted for dinner but chose a big decision and wanted a divorce sets the story from the start for the film. This shows a twist and comes into the Comedy part of the genre as the audience wasn't expecting this. This connotes that there may be other twists coming up in the film and that its about a serious matter on the couples relationship.
The characters in this opening sequence that we have been introduced to are very casually, dressing up before dinner but not too over done, this connotes they are a couple that we could assume have been together a while due to the child but during the opening sequence we dont find out alot about who they are individually.
Editing is used in this sequence to attract the attention of the audience as it cuts quickly between the shots of different couples feet. There is a montage effect used in this opening sequence which makes the audience want to watch more as using the misc-en-scene of a table and peoples feet under tables is not a usual opening sequence for a film.
The target audience of this film are teenagers + preferably females as it is more of a love film which males may not be interested in.
This may inspire our opening sequence as we will consider the use of the montage and how effective to the audience it can be to build up an opening sequence.
In the opening sequence of crazy stupid love there is music playing over the tops of clips of a couples feet touching under tables. We presume its a meal table and then it revels that there is a man and a woman a meal table. They seem like they are deciding what they want to order for dinner, and the man thinks this too, but in the end the lady says she wants a divorce. It comes as a shock to the guy. It then goes into a scene where the couples child is at home enjoying her time with the babysitter before its time for bed and the child accidentally knocks over a picture frame with a picture of her parents. The picture frame is broken and has a smash in the glass and the babysitter picks it up.
The genre conventions that this film has stuck with is the use of the guy and girl relationship, this connotes the genre of film as most romance films are between a guy and a girl starting a friendship or in a relationship.
Another genre convention that is used in this film is the montage effect at the beginning showing the different feet under the table whilst there was music playing over the top, leading up to the main characters.
The use of the twist in the story, where the lady didn't choose what she wanted for dinner but chose a big decision and wanted a divorce sets the story from the start for the film. This shows a twist and comes into the Comedy part of the genre as the audience wasn't expecting this. This connotes that there may be other twists coming up in the film and that its about a serious matter on the couples relationship.
The characters in this opening sequence that we have been introduced to are very casually, dressing up before dinner but not too over done, this connotes they are a couple that we could assume have been together a while due to the child but during the opening sequence we dont find out alot about who they are individually.
Editing is used in this sequence to attract the attention of the audience as it cuts quickly between the shots of different couples feet. There is a montage effect used in this opening sequence which makes the audience want to watch more as using the misc-en-scene of a table and peoples feet under tables is not a usual opening sequence for a film.
The target audience of this film are teenagers + preferably females as it is more of a love film which males may not be interested in.
This may inspire our opening sequence as we will consider the use of the montage and how effective to the audience it can be to build up an opening sequence.
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